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The thigh has 3 groups of muscles:

Adductor - inner thigh, including the adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, and gracilis.

Flexor - back of the thigh, including the hamstring muscles, which include semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris

Extensor - front of the thigh, including the pectineus, sartorius, and the four muscles that comprise the quadriceps muscles (rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius and vastus lateralis)

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